Chapter 409 Robust Imperial Husband 20 Almost simultaneously, there was a rapid knocking on the door.
Qinghe rushed in, her face pale, clutching a letter stained with bright red chicken feathers—a top-level urgent military report.
"Your Highness, General Ling has been assassinated! He has been poisoned by a rare toxin, and the army doctors are helpless!"
"Smack!"
The glass teacup in Zi Xi's hand fell to the ground and shattered.
She snatched the military newspaper and quickly scanned the words on it.
Ling Siran actually used his body to block a poisoned dart in order to save a deputy general.
What a reckless idiot!
She could even picture him lying in his tent, his face ashen and his breath weak.
Zi Xi suddenly stood up, her previous laziness and nonchalance vanished without a trace, and she exuded a terrifying aura of ferocity.
"Pass on the order!"
"Use all of Spring Breeze's overt and covert networks, at all costs, to search for the antidote to the netherworld!"
I need to know the results within one hour!
Her voice trembled slightly from the effort to suppress it, yet it carried a resolute strength.
"Notify the guards to prepare horses, the fastest ones possible!"
"Prepare your clearance documents and identify yourself. No checkpoints along the way may obstruct you!"
As orders were issued, her vast, hidden power began to operate at breakneck speed.
Fortunately, although the poison of the Netherworld is strange, Zi Xi's intelligence network, which she built from childhood, is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.
Two hours later, his men brought news.
The main ingredient needed for the antidote, the Seven-Star Lotus, can only be found in a secluded valley in the miasma-ridden southwestern region. A local tribe that has a secret relationship with Zui Chunfeng happens to possess one of these lotuses.
"Bring it here!"
Zi Xi has only two characters.
When the Seven-Star Lotus, carefully sealed in a jade box, was delivered to her by a fast horse, she did not hesitate and immediately mounted a magnificent, jet-black steed.
"Your Highness! The border is a long and dangerous road, so it would be better if I..."
His subordinates tried to dissuade him.
"Get out of the way!"
Zi Xi interrupted sharply.
Before he could finish speaking, the whip lashed down hard.
The black steed vanished into the vast night like an arrow released from a bow.
A team of elite bodyguards followed closely behind, protecting her safety.
Traveling day and night.
Zi Xi's delicate palms were rubbed raw by the reins, forming blisters that then cracked and scabbed over.
Zi Xi just wanted to get to his side as soon as possible.
When she finally arrived at the military camp with the governor's token, it was already dusk.
The generals who had received the news were already waiting outside the camp gate. When they saw the crimson figure leaping off the horse, disheveled yet undeniably stunning, they were all stunned.
They had never seen such a... reckless woman.
Zi Xi had no time to pay attention to the stares of others, her voice hoarse and urgent: "Where is he?!"
"In...in the main tent..."
She immediately rushed towards the central command tent.
As soon as the curtain was lifted, a strong smell of medicine wafted out.
The tent was dimly lit. Ling Siran lay quietly on a simple camp couch, his face almost deathly pale, his lips cracked and purple, and his breathing so weak that it was almost imperceptible.
That tall, powerful body now seemed so fragile, as if it might dissipate at any moment.
The military doctor knelt to one side, shaking his head with a solemn expression.
Zi Xi walked step by step to the bedside, reaching out to touch his cheek, but her fingertips hesitated in mid-air.
She saw the ominous black blood seeping from the bandage on his left shoulder.
If it weren't for her pushing him to lead troops into battle, Ling Siran wouldn't be lying here on the verge of death.
Despite having experienced many small worlds, she is still very upset.
"Ling Siran, listen to me!"
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